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// global event dispatcher
Backbone.View.prototype.eventAggregator = _.extend({}, Backbone.Events);

// create two different views
var view1 = new Backbone.View();
var view2 = new Backbone.View();

// and attach a listener on view1
view1.eventAggregator.on(‘disconnect’, function() {
  console.log('view1 disconnected');

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var ItemView = Backbone.View.extend({
  method: function() {
    this.log('method() called');
  }
});

var items = [
  new ItemView(),
  new ItemView(),
  new ItemView()

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Backbone.Model.prototype.log =
Backbone.View.prototype.log = function() {
  console.log.apply(console,
    ['[' + this.cid + ']'].concat([].splice.call(arguments, 0))
  );
};

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Backbone.View.extend({

  remove: function() {
    this.closeModal();
    this._super('remove', arguments);
  }

});

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Backbone.Model.prototype._super =
Backbone.View.prototype._super =
Backbone.Router.prototype._super =
Backbone.Collection.prototype._super = function(funcName){
  return this.constructor.__super__[funcName].apply(this, _.rest(arguments));
};

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Backbone.View.extend({

  remove: function() {
    this.closeModal();
    this.constructor.__super__.remove.apply(this, arguments);
  }

});

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var model = new Backbone.Model();
model.debugEvents();

model.trigger('change', 'foo', 'bar'); // event “change” with ['foo', 'bar']

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Backbone.Collection.prototype.debugEvents =
Backbone.Model.prototype.debugEvents =
Backbone.View.prototype.debugEvents =
Backbone.Router.prototype.debugEvents = function() {
  this.on('all', function(eventName) {
    console.log('event “' + eventName + '” with ', Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1));
  });
}

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Backbone.View.extend({

  render: function() {
    this.template(tmplStr, {}); // will call the template engine we chose
  }

});

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// underscorejs version
Backbone.View.prototype.template = function(tmpl, params) {
  return _.template(tmpl, params);
};

// handlebars version
Backbone.View.prototype.template = function(tmpl, params) {
  return tmpl(params);
};